OCTH 6501 - Occupational Therapy Practice and Intervention with Laboratory: Pediatrics

Prerequisite: OCTH 6103. This course focuses on the application of pediatric frames of reference for the implementation of intervention to the pediatric population to specific problems, including gross, fine, and oral (feeding/eating/swallowing) motor skills, behavioral and social issues, handwriting, sensory integrative, visual, cognitive, and psychosocial problems within the framework of the multicultural family. The planning of the occupational needs of a pediatric client for implementing occupation-based interventions to individual and group for physical, developmental, sensory integrative, perceptual/cognitive, and psychosocial dysfunctions. The role of OT for birth to three, school-based practice, emerging practice areas, and clinic/hospital based practice are covered including professional reasoning, therapeutic use of self, discharge planning, and documentation of OT services. Laboratory fee; 4 credits.